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How Small Businesses Can Successfully Use Google Ads to Sell More

November 9, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

How Small Businesses Can Successfully Use Google Ads to Sell More OPEN GRAPH

If you are a small business looking to generate leads, boost sales, and drive visitors to your sites or stores, Google Ads is an investment you’ll want to consider.  Google accounts for 36.3% of total ad spend in the US which is higher than Facebook (only 19.3%). And as you can see from the graph, […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Google Ads for Small Business, google adwords, how Google Ads work, promote local small business, use Google Ads

Boost Your 2020 Holiday Season Sales with PPC and Social Media Ads

November 2, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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With the holidays fast approaching, small businesses are looking to take advantage of the many ways they can boost their holiday sales. There are a number of holiday sales strategies to help improve sales. Today, let’s talk about how you can boost sales with PPC and Social Media Ads Understanding the Two Popular Types of […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: holiday sales, holiday sales strategy, holiday season, PPC, social media advertising

Three Virtual Meeting Essentials

November 3, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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I’ve recently made a few reasonable adjustments to my work from home space that have made a big impact on the quality of my virtual presence and productivity and I think more people should know about them! Like many of you, when the global Coronavirus pandemic hit, all aspects of life were forced into the […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: online meetings, remote meetings, virtual meeting, virtual presence

9 Hacks to Sell More with Social Media Advertising

October 26, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

9 Hacks to Sell More with Social Media Advertising Open Graph

Once upon a time, social media was used only for connecting with friends and family. But these days, social media has become a real game-changer. If you are looking to boost sales in your business, whether B2C or B2B, these 9 hacks will help you sell more with social media advertising. Social media marketing is […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Facebook ads, Facebook Advertising campaign, Instagram ads, Youtube ad format, YouTube marketing

How to Look Great on Your Next Zoom Presentation

October 20, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

How to Look Great on Your Next Zoom Presentation OPEN GRAPH

SPONSORED POST The day of a big presentation has always been stressful, and this new 2020 world we’re navigating has only added to our collective anxiety. Suddenly, your living room is taking center stage, and it seems like you have to be some sort of tech genius to make sure your coworkers or audience can […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: dedicated workspace, proper office equipment, virtual presentation, virtual presentation-prep checklist, working from home

5 Reasons Why Businesses Need SEO

October 27, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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You’ve heard about SEO. You are convinced that SEO works really well for different types of businesses online. What you might be wondering is the why— why a business needs SEO and why it’s so powerful. SEO is a strategic process of increasing a website’s traffic quality and quantity by boosting its visibility to search […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: link building, marketing strategies, search engine optimization, seo strategies, small business, visibility on search engines

How to Turn Your Stream of Leads into Sales

September 5, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

How to Turn Your Stream of Leads into Sales - Jennifer Dunham

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with sales leads expert Jennifer Dunham, @jen_dunham. After owning several companies (at one time), Jennifer found that the kind of leads we […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, SmallBizChat Tagged With: conversions, customers, email list, email marketing, leads, sales, sales funnel

5 Ways to Get Prospect Email Addresses

September 28, 2015 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Doesn’t it feel like no one uses the phone anymore? Everyone is either texting or emailing; even the fax has all but become obsolete. With most people having a strong dislike of junk mail, spam, and telemarketers, you’ll be hard-pressed to gain any marketing ground without the consent of your customers. Without a list of […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Grow Your Business Tagged With: email marketing, prospects

3 Strategies to Help Increase B2B Sales

October 12, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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I get it. Increasing your B2B sales can be a real challenge. It’s not like B2C, where you have a plethora of effective tools and strategies. But it certainly can be done… if you use the right strategies! Here are three you can actively invest your time and resources in to help increase your B2B […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: B2B marketers, B2B sales, B2B sales strategy, B2B sales tool, social media as a sales tool

Sell More Products Online Using These 3 Online Selling Platforms

October 19, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Due to coronavirus, we are seeing more and more people taking to selling online to boost their income. We’ve already shared 6 strategies to help you increase online sales. Now we want to talk about how to increase sales of your products beyond your website. Here are three online selling platforms you should be using […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: eCommerce store owner, etsy business, online selling, online selling platforms, selling on amazon, selling on ebay

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